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Sentence Examples The double doors were missing, a fine veil of rainwater masking the entryway. She flipped down the veil on her mask, looking fretfully at the figure ahead of her. Each is covered with a veil of scrim, painted again and then sanded, so that the surface appears to shimmer from light trapped within. It looked like a veil that they were wearing and very grungy, baggy clothing. The ancient Celts celebrated Samhain on Nov.1 as the day the veil between the world of the living and the dead was at its thinnest. Her sparkling eyes and mischievous glance from under her bright saffron veil were delightful, and her footwork was sharp and true to the taal. Eliza requests that Jane stay a second week, finally informing her that she plans to enter a convent and take the veil for the rest of her life. One widow vowed that if her daughter recovered from her sickbed, the girl would take the veil as a nun. A glitch at Amazon's Canadian site has briefly lifted the veil of anonymity which protected the identities of reviewers. Jesus' death was immediately followed by the veil of the temple being tom in two, from top to bottom. Women are portrayed as desexualized personae and seen through a sadomasochistic veil. This potentially lumpish dish was served in a parfait glass, covered in a veil of horseradish cream. This unvitiated region stands in no need of the veil of twilight to soften or disguise its features. It took two of us to lace her into that corset and we helped with her veil. Saudi women don a billowy black cloak called an abaya, along with a black scarf and veil over the face. You must wear a black cloak and veil that's called an abaya when you leave the palace, to protect your modesty. In public, most Omani women wear a black ankle-length robe called an abaya, and many veil their faces. Not least, the frosty fog that lies over the valley floor adds a cold, wintery veil. Those who attack the veil often do so, not out of republican passion, but because that passion has waned. Rain fell on the silent dead of Pere-Lachaise, on the streets and the houses of Paris, covering the whole city like a veil, like a winding sheet. Show More Sentences The veil was also believed to magically have the power to ward off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride. The Holy of holies was separate from the rest of the Tabernacle by a heavy veil or curtain. The trailing veil brushed an ember, the material curling and shrinking as orange sparks raced up its fine weave. Time has pulled back the veil and what we see is an ego, full of himself, floundering in the winds of change. At one point in the evening, the bride's veil is removed and replaced with a kerchief, symbolizing her change from maiden to married woman. A white witch once told me that at this time of year, the veil between the worlds is thin. N'gone, El Hadji's new wife, is dressed for a Western white wedding and her face is covered with a bridal veil. A veil of acknowledgment swept across her face as she slowly lifted her eyes and shifted her expression to see me. Everyone jumped in their seats as the veil was violently cast across the table by an unseen hand. For those who can afford it, the bridegroom wears a Western-style suit while the bride wears the typical Western white wedding dress with a veil. He was clad in a black ragged cloak that hung around his body like a veil of darkness. Diamante headbands and Juliet caps are generally used to hold the wedding veil in place. The decorative, formal and iconographical nature of the artworks veil the confused personal tensions always present in relationships. She wore a newly fashioned gown of shimmering white, a delicate veil and a golden circlet. Glazed walls are layered with cypress louvers, which veil the street facade from sun and traffic. The growing national movement facilitated this, because the capitalist class could always veil their demands as national demands. Bahraini women were never as strict as other Arabs about covering themselves up in public, and many no longer veil their faces at all. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it. A veil conceals the upper half of the face, exposing his stubbly, unmistakably masculine chin below. Man is, as Plato defined it, is capable of knowing what lies beyond the veil of sense perception. Show More Sentences Her nakedness, though, is well camouflaged by a veil of long curly hair falling on her shoulders. I can't change it, I can't make it better, so I have to draw a veil over it. A veil should be drawn over his attempted clearance that boomeranged for a Rangers corner. I will draw a veil over the following three years of delays and denials and posturing and game-playing, although it was no game to me. Anyone can have an off day, and we'll draw a veil over which one of us it was. Mr Khatami unintentionally drew a veil over a system that everyone knows is terrible. Clara's Brussels lace veil was not sold by her lady's maid nor by the bride herself. Her veil is a matching pillbox of Brussels lace and a shoulder length veil of angel glow tulle. On her head sits a black pillbox hat with a shoulder-length black veil speckled with black velvet dots. Her hair strayed like a dark veil in the night wind as she faced the knights with unflinching courage. The Sovereign was dressed in his traditional habit of silvery blue shirt and veil with a white long sleeveless tunic over top of white trousers. He was dressed in his lordly habit, a black tunic over black trousers and a shimmering silver veil with matching wide sleeves. The principle of the corporate veil as a protection against the liability of the shareholders of the corporation is enshrined in statute law. The smoke hung like a heavy veil over the doorway, stinging his nostrils as he stepped through it. In Isis, a young girl with a small, sweet smile poses shyly in a short white dress, bobby socks and a wedding veil. The simple veil headpiece works great with elaborate bridal gowns since the veil does not detract from the overall look. Supplies were hard to come by and she had to wear the burqa in the streets and a headscarf and veil while operating. Trembling brush strokes imply human frailty, just as the screen-like haze evokes a veil drawn over more troubled memories. Behind this thin veil of trees, chainsaws, mechanical diggers and gold-rush fever have taken their toll. Mist had settled over the rolling hills like the veil of new tears, blurring the beautiful landscape. Show More Sentences The images, on the other hand, do less to historicize artistic representations of the veil and instead highlight recent art works. I shall draw a discreet veil over the rest of that day but suffice it to say that a jolly time was had by all. Instead of the white satin gown and lace veil Elizabeth had worn, Inger simply dressed in her Sunday best. A helper was on hand, not to tame the bridal veil but to dispose of the accumulating wrappers. Swinging gently in my hammock, gazing out through the dappled veil of my mosquito net, I watch a magical scene. I almost thought I could see a dark shape through the veil of flames, but I passed it off as paranoia. It was a caricature of Diedra, in her usual blue and grey shipsuit, but with a white bridal veil flowing behind her onto the floor. Unable to even screech before the veil of death fell upon her, Solokar perished instantly, rivulets of green ichor spraying from her wounds. The place was very dusty and cobwebs hung like a massive veil over the shelves of aged books. She wore a long, fawn-coloured dust-cloak, a black, close-fitting toque, and a dark veil which concealed the greater part of her face. Soft ringlets had been pinned up fashionably atop her head and a white veil embedded with pearls hung from beneath. Soon, Azza went further and put on the niqab, the veil that covers a woman's face below the eyes. Typically, the corporate veil is pierced when the company is incorporated for an illegal, fraudulent or improper purpose. Tessa was driving, squinting through the veil of rain that obscured all vision not 50 yards ahead. My dark hair conceals my damp yellow eyes, like a funeral veil that hides a widow's tears. The past year has brought to light what so long was concealed under the veil of the German consensus model. Civilization is pernicious also because it interposes a veil of artificiality between the individual and the natural objects of experience. This time there's something about the way the veil is pleated which catches your eye. They finished it off with a large, white plumed hat with a lacy veil that covered her face. Wearing a heavily-embroidered ivory dress featuring veil and tiara, Majella also stopped to thank well wishers. Show More Sentences The mesh is like fish net, like crochet, like flea-market dream catchers, like a veil which both conceals and hints at revelation. The bride wore a full-length gown of white brocade with shoulder length veil and tiara. I found a parrotfish hiding in a cave, debris from its diaphanous veil of mucus wafting back and forth with each slight swell. Has any other event been powerful enough to rip the veil that separated heaven from earth and reveal a new and living way to the Father? The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil with a little fractus in the foreground. A black veil of darkness comes over her face as she holds onto the desk for support. Ayrshire landmark Ailsa Craig is swathed in a layer of mist, thick enough to maintain a veil of secrecy. Women cover their clothes with the traditional black cloak, which goes over the head, and wear a veil of thin black gauze over the face. The sun lanced through the overcast veil of blizzard-clouds and snow-squalls and gilded the twin vessels in shining gold. Judith's virtue is indicated by the demure clothing and veil that cover her from head to toe while Holofernes, in contrast, is almost naked. Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas. Other maps, drafted in expectation of development, cast a spectral veil of streets over the rural landscape. Shame has been the veil through which many of us have viewed our naked bodies at times. Others appeared to float in broad tutu dresses worn with matching gossamer-light chiffon veil coats. The horse stopped and beneath the veil of leaves, Legacy could see her brother's well worn leather boots. In this context, truth was elusory, and scepticism, cynicism, relativism and atheism were present under a veil of orthodoxy. Her dark hair was disarrayed in all directions about her head, and her icy blue eyes leered up at me from beneath a veil of hair. I looked up at the beautiful, full moon, partially obscured by a thin veil of mist, and found what I was looking for. The ultimate wedding hat featured a wide brim surrounded by flowers and a huge veil which belled into a dress. We should go out to preach and evangelise, realising that only the Lord can remove the veil of unbelief. Show More Sentences As she is undressed and her wedding veil placed on the tailor's dummy, the camera pans up from her naked back to her body in the photograph. I've analyzed the pluses and minuses of dyeable bridesmaid shoes, the virtues of a detachable veil and the benefits of buttercream frosting. It would only disguise qualitative assessment behind the veil of a quantitative expression. For example, the black veil and the farthingale, or guardainfante, worn by the sitter were typical of but not exclusive to Spanish fashion. Through the veil she saw the blink of gold, the flash of a silver ring on a pale wraith's finger. The Cap has a lot of ornate lace and beads and is worn far back on the head with a thick spray of netting for the veil. Altair craned his head around in an attempt to steal one last glance, but before he could, he found a veil of fog shrouding his view. The nikab, worn in black by this Moroccan woman, is a veil in the true sense of the word. The bride wore a traditional off-the-shoulder ivory dress, with train and sequin detail, and a waist-length veil with pearls and gold trim. The skinny adolescent is dressed to kill in a black sheath dress, gloves and a straw pillbox hat with a veil. A formal daytime wedding is when the bride wears a white, ivory or pastel colored floor length gown with a train and a long veil. Thus, at common law the requirements for piercing the veil seem even more demanding than the statutory definition of a shadow director. He took his toque off with the veil attached, and he put both it and the cloak into his brown bag. The bride wore a white beaded bodice with a net skirt and train, and a shoulder-length veil held by a pearl and rhinestone tiara. He creates a veil between viewer and subject and, with over-emphasis on craft, runs the risk of distancing his audience. Only by knowing his true nature was it possible to see through his gentlemanly veil. A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist. The clouds thus serve to veil the divine glory, which no human can see, as in other theophanies. The interior is largely obscured by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. It was after the ceremony that the veil was lifted and the groom and bride were able to kiss which is the symbol of a beginning of a physical relationship. Show More Sentences Like Nana's clothed bathing, the veil protects her from invasive gazes. The music behind him feels bolder and more courageous, too, as the veil of obscurity that guarded so much of their previous releases has vanished. If successful, Stardust will become only the third spacecraft to capture such a close view of the dark heart of a comet, normally obscured by a bright veil of dust and gas. They were now all crouching just behind a thin veil of vegetation. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. The English name refers to the gossamer veil which protects the gills when the cap is in its unexpanded state, and which bears some resemblance to a spider's web. Why do we continue to find it so difficult to see beyond the veil of race? That this was happening just beyond the veil of visible reality. Similarly, he prefers to draw a veil over his first year at university, which was clearly unhappy for reasons not totally related to his indifference to Fellini movies. Night spreads out like a vast dark veil speckled with silver. By mid-morning the sun burned through a high, hazy veil of cloud. This laborious technique allows the precision of colour that suggests dawn or dusk, mist or drizzle, the veil over the landscape that heightens sensory experience. The unhappy woman had hidden the Host in her veil after receiving. She wears a long veil with a circlet of flowers round her head. He knew, of course, about the bomber but all the technical details described at the inquest were held in camera and a veil soon seemed to settle over the tragic event. She wrapped a shawl around her arms and fastened a veil to her hair. A short veil may be very stylish paired with a classic pillbox hat. Researchers have pulled the veil off of a long-running, large and well-funded cyberspying campaign that has infiltrated computers around the world. Few seem comfortable with their own statehood except as a means of casting a veil of international legitimacy over their own version of power politics. The reason for the veil is the spiritual darkness of the human condition. Show More Sentences They spin a gossamery veil over the piano playing to enhance the imagery. The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. Unlike many other amanitas, the grisette and its relatives have no partial veil covering the immature gills, and no subsequent ring encircling the stalk. On the 23rd, cold and dry weather blew in from the East, and this caused the clouds to disperse, lifting the veil that the Germans had been fighting under. We need to end the entente between governments and the groups and scale down all political activities conducted under the veil of charity and religion. Yes, headdress and veil are included, but the do-rag stays with me. Al-Sharif broke down in tears recalling that Aisha never removed her veil when they met. It was a short A-line frock that covered her arms, and she paired it with a veil and a floral crown. Since she had no burqa, the oversize veil was the closest Malika could come to following Taliban rules. No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil. The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil. But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Her smoothly curling russet hair tumbled down her back, and beneath the white veil he saw her eyes, wide and brown, rimmed with thick, dark lashes. France, of course, is just the latest European country where politicians are trying to criminalize the veil in public. A veil, scarf, or kerchief may be suspended from the head and attached there with a headband or hairpins, or it may variably wrap the head, neck, and shoulders. She went for the white one which featured lace and silk, but had no veil. The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond. She had on a white, sheer veil with pearls sewn into the hem. The increasing pressure to veil is a recent trend, and in some places it is an encroachment on local custom. The former dramatic soprano dresses for the camera, cheeks feverish with rouge, a multipointed jester's hat and veil on her head, bejeweled hands, ratty fur stole. Show More Sentences Two kinds of panels are used, one opaque with vertical ridges, and the other resembling a veil, with horizontal louvres that allow light to filter into the gallery spaces. He denies her one surpassing wish, which is to take the veil. A hole has been torn in the thin veil of ozone just above the Antarctic. The bride wore an ivory satin dress with a boned bodice, scooped neckline, full skirt, a long train, tiara of crystals and a veil with small crystals at the hem. About 100 members of the public gathered outside the church and applauded as the bride emerged from her car wearing the sleeveless, round-necked dress with matching veil. Her veil was thin, and woven and accommodated little sprinkles everywhere. The bride looked most bewitchingly lovely, in a simple robe of the finest Mechlin lace, with a superb veil of the same costly material, which hung down to her feet. Her hair was in a delicate up-do with a sparkly tiara and a short veil. If users want to send naughty photos with a veil of privacy, opt for the pixilated shower door filter. Watching a woman in a white dress and veil realize she just married the wrong person should be reality TV gold. They exploit the exigencies of war to sound like clergymen, seizing religious language to veil partisan public policies in a miasma of ersatz godliness. Clouds covered the sun, a respectful veil shading the sun's merry rays. It features a prominent partial veil which covers the young gills and later forms a sheathlike covering on the lower stem, with the upper edge flaring outward to form a ring. The veil symbolizes the idea of modesty and conveys the lesson that however attractive physical appearances may be, the soul and character are paramount. He could feel her eyes upon him from beneath her veil, forcing his heart to swell with the thought that she loved him enough to accept his marriage proposal. The dust-choked blackdamp scrapes at my throat and stings my eyes so that even if there were light I probably couldn't see through the veil of tears. He was dressed in silver tunic with silvery blue trousers, shirt and veil. Beneath a perfunctory veil of fiction, Keneally shows us a real-life tyrant exercising a power so absolute and unfeeling that it appears amoral, rather than immoral. Boxes of dainty shoes fit for Cinderella were stacked in the corner, with every kind of head-dress and veil just waiting for the right blushing bride. When I ask why she wears a veil in a society where it's optional, Sakdiyah explains how it frees her. Show More Sentences The bride wore an ivory strapless satin dress with a sweetheart bodice, shoulder-length veil, full skirt and long train embroidered with baby pearls and sequins. That his effort is in vain can be inferred from the strands of gold thread that unravel from the bride's veil, sewn across the paper in large deliberate stitches. Her veil off, Shouket wore her hennaed hair in a long braid. And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread. She wore a fingertip-length illusion veil edged in silk ribbon and carried a hand-tied nosegay of white calla lilies and red roses. They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride. Madbaha symbolically represents Heaven and Haickala, the earth and veil the sky. The Sanctuary is separated from the rest of the place by a veil with the sign of a cross. The bride wore a designer gown of Alencon lace over charmeuse and her mother's Alencon lace, chapel-length veil. Although the republic stood in name, contemporaries of Augustus knew it was just a veil and that Augustus had all meaningful authority in Rome. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with gray. Unlike allegory, whose deeper meanings are partially submerged under a veil or transenna, irony hides in plain sight. Often, a second layer of tissue, the partial veil, covers the bladelike gills that bear spores. Many mushrooms lack a universal veil, therefore they do not have either a volva or volval patches. The button has a cottony roll of mycelium, the universal veil, that surrounds the developing fruit body. For luck, many of the brides would attend in their wedding gown and veil, although this custom has long since disappeared from the islands. The bride's birdcage veil, made by her mother, consisted of Russian veiling and ostrich and coque feathers adorned with a silk peony and pearls. Audi is lifting the veil on its A3 five-door hatchback, while Chevrolet unleashes the HHR, a modern take on the 1949 Suburban. It wasn't hard I actually had quite a veil of time going through all the beauty products because I am quite a beauty product junky. The chapel-length veil, encircled with Alencon lace, was attached to a Juliet cap. Show More Sentences She wore her mother's elbow-length veil, which was attached to a Juliet cap. Behind the Daffy Duck smile and customary tennis net veil, there lurked a greedy, bossy, old crabstick. The bride wore an ivory and pink silk lehenga skirt, a blouse adorned with Swarovski crystals and an 18-foot-long chiffon veil. Her veil was a pearl Juliet cap with European lace worn by her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. Here you can buy zills from Sarah in South Africa, a veil from Mary in Maine, and a skirt from Annie in Australia. The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Burckhardt likened the change to a veil being removed from man's eyes, allowing him to see clearly. Residing in the gas cloud known as Bok Globule B335, the infant star lies behind a veil of dust and can't be seen in visible light. Her antique chapel-length veil, which had been worn by her grandmother and mother, was ornamented with marcasites and malachites at the crown. Form fitted in stocking veil and lactic jersey, with a flesh caged corset in marquisette, it is one of a kind. Her cathedral-length veil was highlighted with a vintage Givenchy crystal comb, borrowed from her matron of honor. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Glad cam the dawn in rosy robe, Whilk day our Saviour rase, An' flang her scancing dewy veil Out ower the hills and braes. At the beginning of Holy Qurbana Service the veil is drawn from right side to left. Why not have a figure with a red veil draped over the head, why not have Kachina clowns, why not have androgynous costuming by Donna Karan, why not have some big black rocks? Creative work began over two years ago when Brian Froud connected through the veil to the land of Faerie and painted the faeries' individual portraits. At the wedding ceremony, she wore a lehenga, a red sari along with a veil. Lancelot is shown the Holy Grail through a veil which cures his madness. The Madbaha is demarcated from the bema with an open arch and a veil. In shivah we will not drape our bodies across the branches like a veil. Show More Sentences Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray. The unrent veil was a symbol of darkness and difficulty. To the Jew, it shut out his view of heavenly things, and obstructed his way of approach to them. But of the strange and little people, inhabiting that proximitous world beyond the thin veil of time and space, he knew all they all knew in those wild parts of the land. A fall of hair tumbled down one side of her body like a veil. Rushdie stated that his three sisters would never wear the veil. Spectra of the dust indicate that the veil is probably made of calcium aluminum silicate, a material also found in the outer atmosphere of some stars. Invariably one of the women will have a makeshift veil and the men will be wearing multi-coloured fright wigs as they enjoy their last flings before a life of domestic bliss. As the egg expands, the universal veil ruptures and may remain as a cup, or volva, at the base of the stalk, or as warts or volval patches on the cap. By his death, the veil of poetry is rent and the walls of learning broken. The custom-made gown was cinched at the waist, has a built-in corset and a shimmering ten-yard silk net veil, complete with a pearl-covered Juliet cap. Bligh was presented with an urn that contained some ashes, which have variously been said to be of a bail, ball or even a woman's veil and so The Ashes was born. The bride created her cathedral-length veil of silk organza, edged in pearls and attached to a headband of pearls, shells, Austrian crystals and tiny gold point shoes. The veil was of great sentimental value because her matron of honor had worn it in her own wedding ceremony and had brought it all the way from North Dakota to share. She wore a fingertip-length veil of French tulle edged in Chantilly lace and carried a hand-tied bouquet of Amelia roses, white peonies, star-of-Bethlehem, and stephanotis. Veil desperately tried to leap out, but a big clod of earth landed on his head. Gainsborough bodice-rippers such as The Wicked Lady and The Seventh Veil had established him as the man audiences loved to hate. Veil nodded understandingly and nuzzled her neck gently like his mother used to do to comfort him. I have pasted over the frontispiece a drawing of Yeats by the Senior Yeats which this edition does not reprint from The Trembling of the Veil. Ahead of him he saw the Sacred Veil upon which was embroidered two cherubim, male and female each embracing the other. As Veil continued to dig, he discovered two major flaws in his plan. Show More Sentences Team Fred had just finished the rappel at Bridal Veil Falls. After that first election, the parliament held its first session on 11 July 1979, electing Simone Veil MEP as its President. Veil was also the first female President of the Parliament since it was formed as the Common Assembly. Other notable films shot at the Hall include Major Barbara, Love Story, The Seventh Veil, The Ipcress File, A Touch of Class, Shine and Spice World. In Beyond The Veil, while you are drawn into the hunt for a possible murderer, you'll be soaking up facts about bees, beekeeping and all things apicultural. More a tone poem than a drama, Defile in Veil is nonetheless dramatic in its expression of the relationship between the interior and the exterior of its solitary protagonist. Examples from Classical Literature Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale? In their hands they carried the crozier from which hung the maniple, a sort of green veil. But probably no one better than she understood the serviceability for disguise of a heavily figured white-lace veil. The stem is somewhat hollow, fibrillose and squamulose from the veil, farinaceous at the apex. She wore a tastily trimmed hat, with veil, a well fitting seal coat and a plaided silk skirt of subdued colors. And urged by his welling love he again embraced her and again pressed a loverly kiss upon Matilda's veil. Is that extemporaneous, or ready cut, for every woman who takes off her veil to you? Yet she would not take back the words either, nor would she grant the veil. Beside her was a maiden, upon whom was a vest and robe poor and thin, and the veil of her headcloth was old though clean. In it there is much of hogarthian genius, without anything that needs a veil. Over the scene we will draw a veil, but we never saw the knickerbockered ladies again! Her hands shook so that she failed twice in the task of refastening her veil. The latter now quietly fastened the anadem she had taken from her head in her sister's hair, and drew her veil over her face. By that time the veil was there, and getting thicker, and we lined up on our right sides. The veil is stretched like a drumhead from the stem to the margin of the cap. The matter seemed involved in mystery, and no one attempted to raise the veil which hung over the subject of embryogeny. All that remained was to draw a veil as decently as might be over the forgettable humiliation. And see the glisten of that glacier in the haze, like a star in the veil of a bride! Of course, I would wear a so-called gown with the veil, but I love the veil, it is so shimmery. Have I not cause to think that the hour is hasting but too fast when the veil must be rent for me? Show More Sentences Hyrel could feel her hot breath through her veil upon his neck, adding to the headiness of the liquor. We mentioned before, that the himation was sometimes pulled over the back of the head like a veil. The veil is absent, or, if present, it is downy and adherent to the margin of the cap. The air was intoxicatingly soft and played gently with the black lace veil which had fallen from Anna Maria's fair hair. On the contrary, as Amarna sat well in the shadow, her face still hidden behind her veil, she greatly resembled a huge black blot. The lacelike white of the flowering elder covered the whole earth with a delicate bridal veil. There is but a thin veil that parts us from the beatic vision of the blest. A peculiarity of the Mauresques of Blida is that they veil themselves in a most strange manner. Her magnificent eyes shone out like brasiers, though every now and then a cloud seemed to veil and extinguish them. In Cortinarius, the veil is composed of arachnoid threads, and the spores are rusty. A woman with a broadtail coat, a heavy lace veil, pearl earrings, and a close black hat entered the restaurant. From its resemblance to a spider's web such a veil is said to be arachnoid. As a preamble La Signorina raised the inevitable veil to the rim of her hat. At least half the women still wore the haik and veil, half the men the burnoose. He glides delicately over the character of the conspiracy to kill Riccio, and manages to veil the real motives. Mass had been said not long since, and the chalice covered with the veil and burse was still on the altar. Hymenophore continuous with the stem, veil woven into a fugacious web, which adheres to the margin of the pileus. It looks cold until the rocks warm it with their gemlike tints, like a bride's jewels gleaming through her veil. She invariably wore gloves out of doors and a veil to conceal the chatoyant eyes. Besides, the wearing of the veil and claustration are in no wise religious obligations. Show More Sentences As for my Ventura, all I have is his, since Marcela wishes to take the veil, and you may be sure that he is not shirtless. Bossuet could not veil his haughty countenance, and his language is that of asperity and contemptuousness instead of moderation. She tied the address book in the corner of her green veil while Mrs. Watterson looked on curiously. For a hundred years she wore the veil which cummin had blessed upon her head. The czaritza, mother of Dmitri, who had first incited the mob, was forced to take the veil. His suave politeness was a velvet veil of character behind which he masked the slavering fangs of the beast he really was. The merciful veil was torn from his imagination, his soul gaped to the knowledge of death and of direr things that precede death. He wished Home might always wear such a dismal veil of dampness, scirocco, and cloud. The darkness lifted veil by veil, not gradually, but by a series of leaps as when some one inexpertly turns a wick. Inez rose and stood before him, throwing back her veil that he might see her face. There was now no gulf of age or habit to veil from dollie her disadvantage. What if Neill Sheridan, poking about alone with a candle, could see through that veil? It dealt in private scandal and ribaldry, only the more piquant for its pretty flimsy veil of double-entendre. Lifting her veil, he saw a frail girl, and while the traffic jam increased she told her story. Find more words! 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